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By Tony Attwood If we leave Money Blues out of the equation for the moment (because everything about it is odd and difficult to equate with Jacques Levy) then Oh Sister is the first collaboration song between Levy and Bob Dylan, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The writing of songs in 1975 started with Money Blues (as we have seen, which now I come to look back, maybe didn’t have much input from Jacques Levy), followed by One More Cup of Coffee, and … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Update: we’ve found a recording that can be uploaded.  The Jacques Levy version seems to have gone from the internet but here is a tribute version. 1975 is the year Bob Dylan worked with Jacques Levy – … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Buckets of Rain” was the last but one song to be written for Blood on the Tracks and appears last on the album.  In a constructional sense I am reminded to John Wesley Harding which ends with … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The first aim of this site – to review all the important Bob Dylan songs – remains the same, but I have just had a few days off that because as always new things keep popping up. … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood OK in the great scheme of things 50 ain’t that many but even so, it is a great start. Today we are debating whether it was Robert Johnson or Woody Guthrie who had the greatest influence on … Continue reading →

If you post a comment on this site (which of course you are always welcome to do) it will appear under one of the articles.   Which is fine, but then only those people who read that article will see … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Oxford Dictionaries has a Dirge as a lament for the dead – especially one that is part of a funeral.  But it can also be just a mournful song – although the dictionary also casts it as … Continue reading →

It has for a long while bothered me that there is nowhere on this site for issues that fall outside the boundaries of the songs reviewed or the specific topics that have been brought up by friends of the site. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Unlike some of his full-on years in the 1960s, 1973 for Dylan was a year primarily of writing, and then recording the songs that became Planet Waves.   Tough Mama was written after On a Night Like … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The Edlis Cafe  Facebook group introduces “If I Was a King” from Disc 18 of “Cutting Edge” thus… The true test of a Dylanista is to transcribe all the words to If I Was A King on Disc 18 … Continue reading →

Continuing the experiment with finding things Dylan did each day of the year.  If you know of any not included do write in and say. 20 April 1961: Bob Dylan played at Gerde’s Folk City, New York. 20 April 1966: … Continue reading →

This is part of a continuing exploration to see if it is possible to create a Dylan Day by Day file.   We’re in the early days, but there is an index to the days covered so far. I am … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “A lover out there; I recall.” It could be the title for the collection of the 1973 songs in which Dylan deals with current love and past love.  It is of course the heartbeat of a billion … Continue reading →

I am continuing the experiment of trying to build a little record of Bob’s activities (and related Dylan events) each day through the year.  This is the third date I’ve tried – 18 April 18 April 1961: Dylan played Gerde’s … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Yesterday I started a little experiment to see if I could find a few anniversaries of events in Bob Dylan’s life just for that specific day. It seemed quite an interesting thing to do, because it gave … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan on this Day I thought I might try a little experiment and search for anything I could find related to Bob Dylan on 16 April.   It took much longer than I expected to find things, and I … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan’s “Hazel” Reviewed By Tony Attwood I’m sad to admit that the thing that always comes to mind for me with this song is that Clinton Heylin’s know-it-all sarcasm only works when he really knows his facts.  And I … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In the earlier articles in this series I put forward an idea for categorising the types of songs that exist, and the origins of Dylan’s approach and style How Bob Dylan writes songs: Part 1 – The … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Although the Shot of Love album was less religious than the previous two albums Dylan recorded, it most certainly included a number of very solidly Christian songs – including rather obviously obviously Property of Jesus. It is … Continue reading →